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Murder at Gordon's Olympia
Frank Cullen & Donald McNeilly, 2011 honorees of the Theatre Museum of New York and authors of The Porridge Sisters books, invite you to join them for another of Florrie and Lavinia's adventures: Murder at Gordon's Olympia. It's 1920 and the Jazz Age decade has begun to roar. Women win the vote! Alcohol is outlawed; gangsters go into business-bootlegging and rum-running. Doughboys come back from the Great War to live on the streets: peacetime causalities. Florrie and Lavinia anxiously await their boy Tommy's return from Europe. Vaudeville slumps. Movies triumphs, and Radio portends to be the next 'big thing.' Change swirls though Portridge Arms: Agnes and Frankie have a baby girl, and Edna and Paul have wed. Malachi Brody starts his own security business. And the Castle Street Irregulars embark on the Fourth Porridge Sisters Adventure when they discover a Murder at Gordon's Olympia.
Vaudeville on the Diamond
Over the last couple of decades, minor league baseball games have shown substantial attendance figures, with more than forty-one million spectators in both 2010 and 2011. With all the high-tech, live-streaming, fast-paced entertainment available to consumers, what is it about minor league baseball that still holds appeal with today’s audiences? With access to major league games broadcast on countless cable networks, what draws fans to small stadiums to watch obscure players struggle to make the big time? Sports historian David M. Sutera set out to answer these questions by visiting fourteen minor league baseball parks around the country. In Vaudeville on the Diamond, Sutera discusses the l...
Murder at the Old Howard
Murder at the Old Howard is the Second Porridge Sisters Mystery written by Frank Cullen & Donald McNeilly, winners of the Theatre Museum of New York's 2011 Award for Excellence in the Preservation of Theatre History. Florrie and Lavinia Portridge are well-known among vaudevillians and actors as “The Porridge Sisters” for the vegetarian cuisine they serve at Portridge Arms, a “boardinghouse for theatricals” that offers comfort, cleanliness and a bohemian camaraderie. The projected series of seven Porridge Sisters Mysteries takes place in Boston between 1908 and 1932. The Murder at the Tremont Theatre occurred in 1908. In 1912, straightforward and sensible Lavinia and intuitive but err...
Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy
"Jack Benny became one of the most influential entertainers of the 20th century--by being the top radio comedian, when the comics ruled radio, and radio was the most powerful and pervasive mass medium in the US. In 23 years of weekly radio broadcasts, by aiming all the insults at himself, Benny created Jack, the self-deprecating "Fall Guy" character. He indelibly shaped American humor as a space to enjoy the equal opportunities of easy camaraderie with his cast mates, and equal ego deflation. Benny was the master of comic timing, knowing just when to use silence to create suspense or to have a character leap into the dialogue to puncture Jack's pretentions. Jack Benny was also a canny entrep...
The Flood Year 1927
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- ONE Modern Overflow -- DISASTER'S PUBLIC -- TWO A Northern Army of Relief -- THREE Cross Talk in the Press -- FOUR Bessie's Eclogue -- FIVE Catastrophe Comes to Vaudeville -- MODERNISM WITHIN A SECOND NATURE -- SIX William Faulkner and the Machine Age Watershed -- SEVEN Richard Wright: Environment, Media, and Race -- Conclusion: Noah's Kin -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Permissions Acknowledgments -- Index
Ruled by Race
From the Civil War to Reconstruction, the Redeemer period, Jim Crow, and the modern civil rights era to the present, Ruled by Race describes the ways that race has been at the center of much of the state’s formation and image since its founding. Grif Stockley uses the work of published and unpublished historians and exhaustive primary source materials along with stories from authors as diverse as Maya Angelou and E. Lynn Harris to bring to life the voices of those who have both studied and lived the racial experience in Arkansas.
Vaudeville Times
Vaudeville Times was published quarterly from 1998 until 2008. Each issue ran 20-28 pages and included 4-10 profiles with photos of vaudevillians, old and new, plus reviews and other showbiz histories. AVM is reissuing all forty as as a ten volume set. The American Museum of Vaudeville (aka American Vaudeville Museum and AVM) was established in 1982 as a nonprofit corporation dedicated to the preservation, collection, presentation and publication of all vaudeville materials, records and effects as may advance and preserve the knowledge of vaudeville, its performers and its place in the cultural and social history of the United States. AVM received its tax exempt 501 (c) (3) designation in 1984.
Mike Donlin
Mike Donlin was a brash, colorful, and complicated personality. He was the most popular athlete in New York and was a star on the powerful New York Giants teams of 1905 and 1908. Though haunted by tragedy, including the deaths of both of his parents as a boy, Donlin was a charming, engaging, and kind-hearted man who also had successful careers on the stage and in film. One of the early “bad boys” among professional athletes, Donlin’s temper and combativeness—compounded by alcoholism—led to battles with umpires and fans, numerous suspensions from the game, and even jail time. In 1906, when Donlin married vaudeville actress Mabel Hite, his life changed for the better, and their love ...
Camp Cooke and Vandenberg Air Force Base, 1941-1966
During World War II, hundreds of military training installations were built throughout the United States to prepare servicemen for the rigors of overseas combat. One such installation was Camp Cooke in California, which since 1957 has become an internationally recognized missile and rocket base renamed Vandenberg Air Force Base. This book examines the history of the camp, starting with its construction. Established some 150 miles north of Los Angeles, Cooke was designed for armored divisions, but by the end of the war hundreds of other specialized organizations trained there. It supported many USO clubs and attracted some of Hollywood's leading entertainers as well as many from radio and sta...
Black Tap Dance and Its Women Pioneers
While tap dancers Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, and Eleanor Powell were major Hollywood stars, and the rhythms of Black male performers such as the Nicholas Brothers and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson were appreciated in their time, Black female tap dancers seldom achieved similar recognition. Who were these women? The author sought them out, interviewed them, and documented their stories for this book. Here are the personal stories of many Black women tap dancers who were hailed by their male counterparts, performed on the most prominent American stages, and were pioneers in the field of Black tap.
